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OWA 2003 comes with a built-in spell checker that can help you spell check your outgoing mail in various languages: English French German Italian Korean Spanish Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2003 adds even more language support, including the long-awaited Hebrew spell checking. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but there is a…

How can I disable the Shutdown Event Tracker on a Windows Server 2003 machine? Shutdown Event Tracker provides a way for IT professionals to consistently track why users restart or shut down their computers. It does not document why users choose other options, such as Log off and Hibernate. It gathers the reasons users give…

What is the Shared Documents folder used for? Can I remove this option from Windows XP? Shared folders are counterparts to your personal folders: My Documents, My Pictures, and My Music. Shared Documents, Shared Pictures, and Shared Music provide a place for you to store files, pictures, and music that everyone on your computer can…

Can I disable the RunAs command? You sure can! The RunAs command was first introduced in Windows 2000 (in NT 4.0 you could use a tool called SU.EXE from the Resource Kit), and enables administrators to use alternate logons, also known as secondary logons. As a security best practice, it is recommended that you do…

How can I disable the highlighting of newly installed programs in Windows XP? When you install a new program in Windows XP its entry on the Start menu is highlighted. You can tweak XP and disable that feature so that new programs are not highlighted after you install them: Right-click the Start menu and choose…

How can I disable the password requirement for a user in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain? Windows Server 2003 provides security policies that ensure that all users select strong passwords. Creating a password policy involves setting the following options in the Default Domain Group Policy object. These policies, with the exception of those…

NetBIOS is an ancient session-level interface and transport protocol developed by IBM to network together PCs. It is a broadcast-based, non-routable and insecure protocol, and it scales poorly mostly because it was designed with a flat namespace. Since the late 1980s Microsoft has adopted NetBIOS for their LAN Manager product, and from there it found…

How can I stop Windows XP from showing Zipped files as folders? Windows XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you’ve got a fast machine or if you don’t have a registered version of a good archiving program (such as WinZip, WinRAR, WinACE and so on). On slower machines you can…

How to disable Local GPO processing in Windows Vista? Windows Vista has the ability to create multiple local group policies (GPOs). This means that whenever you want to configure different settings for different users you can do so easily . You can read more about LGPOs on my Understanding Multiple Local GPOs in Windows Vista…

How can I disable Fast User Switching in Windows XP Pro? To turn Fast User Switching on or off: You must have a computer administrator account on a computer that is a member of a workgroup or is a stand-alone computer to turn on or turn off the User Fast User Switching feature. Fast User…